Colour Impressions: A Report to the Albert Kahn Trustees on the Results of a Journey Round the World, July 21, 1913, to July 24, 1914 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Knoop, Douglas

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ISBN 10: 1334000581 ISBN 13: 9781334000584

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Colour Impressions: A Report to the Albert Kahn Trustees on the Results of a Journey Round the World, July 21, 1913, to July 24, 1914

What appears to be wanted in India is a much more summary system of jurisdiction, freed from some of the safeguards and technicalities which are theoretically intended to protect innocent persons, but which in practice permit a great many guilty persons to escape punishment. Such a system might work hardly on a certain number of innocent persons, but taking the situation as a whole it appears that a greater measure of justice would be secured. It is also probable that under such a system it would be more difficult to secure the conviction of innocent persons on fictitious charges. The present system of administering justice appears to many to encourage discontented persons to commit out rages, as the chances are very much against the guilt being brought home to the offender. Further considera tion of this point, however, may be deferred until we come to consider the general question of Indian unrest.

The efforts made by the British rulers in India to enhance the material welfare of the people call for um bounded admiration. Great progress has been made in the matter of providing transit facilities; the enormousexpenditure on trunk roads, railways, and harbour works has opened up the country and rendered it accessible to shipping.

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Excerpt from Colour Impressions: A Report to the Albert Kahn Trustees on the Results of a Journey Round the World, July 21, 1913, to July 24, 1914

As far as civil cases are concerned, the introduction of English legal procedure into India affords facilities for delays and encourages litigation of which the natives are altogether too fond.

What appears to be wanted in India is a much more summary system of jurisdiction, freed from some of the safeguards and technicalities which are theoretically intended to protect innocent persons, but which in practice permit a great many guilty persons to escape punishment. Such a system might work hardly on a certain number of innocent persons, but taking the situation as a whole it appears that a greater measure of justice would be secured. It is also probable that under such a system it would be more difficult to secure the conviction of innocent persons on fictitious charges. The present system of administering justice appears to many to encourage discontented persons to commit out rages, as the chances are very much against the guilt being brought home to the offender. Further considera tion of this point, however, may be deferred until we come to consider the general question of Indian unrest.

The efforts made by the British rulers in India to enhance the material welfare of the people call for un bounded admiration. Great progress has been made in the matter of providing transit facilities; the enormousexpenditure on trunk roads, railways, and harbour works has opened up the country and rendered it accessible to shipping.

In many districts irrigation schemes have been carried through, which have largely increased the productive capacity of the country. Generally speaking, the inhabitants have welcomed transportation and irrigation schemes, as they realise the advantages which they derive from them. But when it comes to sanitary improve ments, these have often to be introduced and carried on in the face of much apathy, if not active opposition, on the part of the natives. Contaminated water from a well is nearly always preferred to pure water supplied through mains. The precautions taken in well-built municipal tenements to prevent overcrowding and to secure through ventilation are frequently unavailing: too many people occupy a tenement, and the openings are largely barricaded with old bits of cloth and rags. It is often difficult, if not impossible, to make the native comply with regulations drawn up with the object of stamping out the deadly malaria-bearing mosquito. Similarly there is much opposition to the measures taken to fight plague. In spite of the difficulties with which they have to contend, the authorities have achieved a great deal in the direction of improving sanitary con ditions. I was particularly struck by the work done by the Bombay Improvement Trust. They have made wide new streets through congested areas, they have bought and pulled down insanitary dwellings and have erected blocks of model dwellings in their place; they have drawn up and begun to carry out a large scheme of town-planning in the north of the Bombay Island, which will prevent congestion in new quarters of the town.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1334000581
• ISBN 13: 9781334000584
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 108